Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-09

! Fort WORTH Granite Roofing Company,
lust organized, Withia paid up capital OF
$50, 600. Their buildings are already
nearly completed, and in g short tine
will put or the market q very durable
and chesp roofing material, Just suited
to this climate. Colonel j. 2. Smith CT
this city, Is the president OF the concern,
and Mr.. Frank B. Hough Of Kansas City,
is the secretary and treasurer.
A stock yards company with G capital
Ct $3.50, coo fully paid up is another i'm
portant enterprise. Fort Worth, with
her unparalleled railroad facilities, Unjust
yet be ereat cattle market.
The latest probable undertaking is the
establishment OF large packing mouse
here. Ice IS made at small eNp ense and
the crop is aIWsys assured. Then ii is
but short distance TO Galveston or Cor
pus Christi, where freight rates, via
steamers, to the Old World and South
Americ: sre much cheaper than via rail
TO New York or Baltimore and thence by
steamers And they Will have more than
baeves to slaughter in this packing
establishment, for Texas Will, in
the near future, prove herself re
spectacle, if not great, in the
list Of sWine-r raising states. What wlll
f4tten them: Listen: Up in the Pan
handle OF Texas, only 800 miles from Fort
Worth to its center, are forty-seyen coun-
lies, containing 800 square miles, and
ttis land will produce, smong many other
vegetables, the mangel IuIzel, or wren
s.e reva, as it is known TO the Germans,
in most abundant quantities. Twenty
tNo tons TO the acre is not an unusual
crop, and then it is crop th&t never
fails. Well, these roots produce the
finest kind Of meat when fed to either
hogs or cattle. POrkopolis has been
migratory character. A while ago Gin
clrnati boosted the title; then Chicago;
Kansas City has it now, and why not Fort
Worth next: Texas uses vast quantities
Ct pork, and seven-eighths of 1t comes
/ from Kansas City. Fort Worth, the future
and final PorkCp0is, Why not:
In the territory tributary to Fort
Worth, q portion of whichis shown in the
map, the cotton crop for this ye ar will
amount TO something more than 500, 900
bales In the same territory there are
not less than $500, 900 head Of sheep.
The wool clip of this vast flock at seven
pounds to the head, low estimate,
would amount to $500, 900 pounds.
Nearly all the wool and cotton is sent out
of the state to be manufactured. Fort
| Worth has no wooden mill or cotton mill.
Both would succeed here. The rail
roads could pour the raw material in here
st triti2g cost. Fuel is cheap. Living
| is cheap. In fact there is every element
here TO insure the success OF such enter
prises. But they will come. The clti-
zens of Fort Worth know what they want
know good things when they sec them
-and they also know how to get them,
and as soon as they seCnre two or three
large trunk line railroads they will 60 to
work with will 10 secure cotton and
WOODEN mi Is.
referred to the map awhile ago-Fort
/ Worth's territory. In my opinion this
/ map is TOO modest. 1t ought to take in
four columns instead of two, and it might
! be extended further south, for Fort Worth
does business far beyond the western ard
/ southern boundaries of this map.
About resi- estate in Fort Worth? Yes,
| looked that question up, too. l inter
/ viewed 8 great many men who are &C
Curstely informed on that subject, men
/ who have had varied experience in
real estate IN many cities, and their
! dese, in substance, are expressed by an
old citizen fGrmer:St. LOuisian, about
as follows "There has not been s real
/ eSs2te DCOm n Fort w Ortl, 1lere IS
constant teaIthy movement in real estate
at what m8y be considered low prices.
When it is considered that this is already
The railroad center Of the state, il is more
/ than probable that large blocks Of real
estate will double in value within year
/ Sni still be good Investments" Invest
ors not wishing to put their capital in
manufacturing establishments will find
/ in Fort Worth real estate many OF the
| best opportunities for safe and profitable
investments now offered in the entire
west ard south.
/ But Fort Worth and Texas has the Fort
/ Worth GAZETTE, and every true Texan
refers to it with iustihable pride. 1t
/ prints all the news OF its own state. 1t
/ gets the news wherever it is found, out
side Of Texas or beyond the seas. 1t
prints it, too. In brief, it is news
papeT-the best in Texas, the oftenest
| quoted 81 home and abroad, and can be
depended on to be in all the triumphs of
/ It's city and commonwealth.
/ In closing the series of letters l hope |
have interested many in Fort Worth and
Texas. If have, they will want more
facts and more figures, and these can be
supplied by addressing the secretary OF
the Merchants and Manufacturers
Bureau of Fort Worth, Mr.. j. ?. Alexan-
der.